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Retouch a portrait

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There is a complete set of online editing tools included in the Flickr platform. So even if your picture isn't perfect when it's uploaded, you still have a chance to fine tune it with a number of different effects and adjustments. In this video, I demonstrate how to retouch a portrait. Afterward, you can either save over the original image, or put the corrected version alongside it.

- [Voiceover] There's a couple nice toolsfor editing portraits in our online editor.I want to show them to you right now.We'll use this portrait right here,which already looks pretty good,but ya know we want to play the tools, right?So the first thing I'm going to do,is I'm going to zoom in a bitso we can get a better look.Let's do that right there,and then we go over to this arrow hereand this reveals two tools I want to show you.We'll start with blemish, and basicallyyou just pick your brush sizethat you want to use.

And you hover over the blemish, and then you click.And same thing here,and click, and away they go.And I don't know if you can see that on your screenthese blemishes are fairly faint but they are gone.They are gone.They did a nice job there.So I'll go ahead and apply that,and then we can whiten the teeth also.This is kind of fun.So make the brush size a little bit smaller on thatNow the thing about tooth whitening isyou just do one pass with this editoryou don't go crazy.

So I'm just going to go, and I'm just going to goright across just like that.Just one pass, isn't that nice?Click apply.Let me just show you,we'll go back one so you can see the difference.That's before, and that's afterand you don't want to do anymore than that believe me.(laughing)It just gets crazy, they get the florescent teethit's scary, it's scary.Now if you need it, there's also red eye hereand it would work as you would anticipateif she had red eye then you wouldjust pick the brush size and hover over it and click,and it would get rid of the red eye for you, okay?So that's really terrific.

And then just like with all the other tutorials we've doneup until this point in the online editoryou just click save, and your imageis saved back to your photo stream.You have the option of either saving overthe existing image, replacing itor saving a copy that goes by its side your choice.But pretty nice little tools andthe tooth whitening in particularI think is nice and I'm pretty impressedwith the blemish move tool also.

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4/27/2016

With its multifaceted organizational and editing tools, Flickr takes sharing photo collections to a new level of ease and creativity. New features like the Camera Roll and 1TB storage capacity make it appealing for professional photographers as well as casual users. In Sharing Photos with Flickr, professional photographer and teacher Derrick Story goes step-by-step through the online interface and the functions, so anyone can upload, edit, and share their photos and videos. Derrick also shows techniques for making Flickr photos easier to find, from creating sets and collections to tagging and assigning photos to a map. Plus, learn how to participate in the active community and explore the Flickr universe for inspiration.

Topics include:

Why use Flickr?

Using Photostream vs. Camera Roll to view Flickr images

Setting up and customizing a Flickr account

Uploading photos and videos from various sources

Viewing larger photos and slideshows

Editing and tagging photos

Participating in the Flickr community through comments, contacts, groups, and more